The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Quote by Joan Didion

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect...

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Call me the author.

Call me the author.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for...

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -...

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves -...

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its...

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its...

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it...

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it...

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies...

Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies...

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin,...

Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin,...

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity,...

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity,...

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it

I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory,...

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory,...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I...